Friday, April 12, 2013

The body of a man identified as Roberto Navarro
Vazquez, 45, was found inside a vehicle in the Tijuana neighborhood of Lomas de
Aguacaliente.

Police sources confirmed the body was found
yesterday at about 8:00 am in the exclusive residential zone. Neighbors claimed
they heard gun shots and called the local police and fire department, neighbors also reported the hit man attempted to torch the victim´s car.

Roberto Navarro´s car after the execution.

A police operation was conducted in the area, several
corporations were part of it, including the State Preventive Police (Policia Estatal
Preventiva, PEP) helicopter, but no suspects were arrested.

Navarro Vazquez´s body remained in the driver´s seat,
of the Chevy Trail Blazer. The vehicle had signs of smoke coming from the left side of the vehicle, at first neighbors thought that the hit men tried to burn the vehicle, but
police reports indicate that this wasn´t the case.

The official report
states that the victim was a lawyer and that he was executed with a 9mm hand
gun, apparently he was “hunted” down by his killers, who lie in wait outside his house
the entire night until he exited his house and entered his vehicle. Next, a man driving
a Buick Le Sabre, caught up with the victim, and motioned for him slow down, as if to greet the victim, instead shot him several times.

Witness reports
Navarro was shot several times, one of the shots impacted his head, making him
loose control of the vehicle and hit a wall. His foot was still on the
accelerator so the car´s left tire keep rotating, this caused smoke, the smoke
that prompted neighbors to believe someone tried to torched the vehicle. Police
found 5 shell casings, and according to the State Attorney General Office, the
weapon had not been used in previous crimes.

Soon after the
murder, the victim´s brother (an active officer in the State Preventive Police)
arrived at the scene and identified the body.

Julio Cesar Salas Quiñones, aka "M4"Unofficial reports
given to Agencia Fronteriza de Noticias(Border News Agency) indicate he also worked
in several “Organized crime” cases, mainly those of members of the Tijuana
cartel. Navarro worked as defense attorney for several years, his clients
were mostly members of the Tijuana cartel. Recently he was in charge of the
defense of Julio Cesar Salas Quiñones, aka “El M4”. Some sources told AFN that Navarro recently asked for
the records of Teodoro Garcia Simental, aka “El Teo” a former Tijuana cartel
member who collaborated with enemies of the Arellano Felix brothers.

El Mayo´s nephew killed in Tijuana

Two men were executed last Saturday inside a Tijuana apartment. A third man was also shot and identified as a prison guard working for the State Preventive Police. Two members of the Mexican Army were presented as witnesses.

At about 11:00 pm, the local police responded to a gunshots reported in the area. When they arrived at the scene they found two corpses with gunshot wounds to the head, the victims were believed to be State Preventive Police agents, but the corporation denied it, and claimed only the wounded man was a prison guard working for the State Security Council.

The execution was conducted with 9mm handguns and took place in the Astiazaran street, belonging to the Jardines del Rubi neighborhood.

At the moment nobody knew the identities of the dead men, but one of the victims was later identified as Jose Angel Luna Garcia, 22, nephew of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia.

The other victim was a US citizen by the name of Joseph Flores, 25, who apparently worked as a car salesman in California and was Luna Garcia´s roommate. Neither Luna Garcia, nor Flores had criminal records in Baja California.

Jose Angel Luna Garcia was born in Culiacan and -according to witnesses- worked in a paper supply store in Tijuana. His body was buried in Culiacan, Sinaloa.

My interest in the drug war began way before it´s media coverage exploded. Being born and raised in Tijuana´s Zona Norte, I´ve always been around drugs, dealers and death. Many of my youth friends are either death or in jail. I wish to contribute with translations of articles not always available to the english speaking reader, even if it is from time to time only.

Its seems that CAF does not have a truce nomore with sinaloa. It was smart that CAF kept a low profile this helped them revive the cartel . now CAF will hit sinaloa cartel in TJ , mexicali, all baja and san luis rio colorado thats the next war coming up

Great post. Any idea who maybe responsible for these executions? BB forevast that Tijuna was going to heat up. Also, was El Mayo part of the business or just collateral damage to mess with him? As for the attorney were they trying to get rid of him due to who he represents as clients or was it another message being sent? Thanks for any help you and BB readers can give me. Peace to all innocents, Texas Grandma.(who went overseas to see my family and really behind on the war in Mexico.) :-)

This has to be a tit for tat murder incidents. CDT vs CDS. You take out my lawyer, I take out your nephew or visa versa. This might unleash more violence in Tj as MZ tries to exact revenge for the murder of his nephew.

scared in USA how can i tell this. the whole family invaded at 4 in the morning.my father beaten every day my mother and sisters far worse. after many days of finding other family that lived around the city all were told take the clothing on your back return and you die. i should not give exact details but all family left that city some to other parts of mexico the most terrified went to the USA. one new mouth to feed with family in usa is ok but i am the lucky one just my family living with family here. others of my city many living in one house not enough food for all. the children eat first. page one

I heard that CAF has recruited hunderds of the sureno gang. MZ wont do anything . Sinaloa cartel are fighting zetas, beltran leyva mostly took over all north of sinaloa.. do u think chapo will win TJ , ofcourse not. CAF is going to clean them up from baja. Fernando sanchez arellano is a powerful man but is keeping a low profile too late now. War will start.

i guess we have the people responsible for el melvin arrest and trying to recruit caf members to join cds i wish i really wish a war can be avoided but reality is chapo cause this by trying to remove el caf from tijuana

could be at least a dozen reasons for each murder, Mayos nephews working (if he was working) in Tijuana, is problematic for reasons not even directly related to CAF and CDS. Just the fact he is from Culican, and a junior is enough to get him killed, if the wrong person takes offense. The lawyer, who knows what that guys was into, a carte lawyer about 10 different ways to get murdered, I doubt this is the coming of a war in tijuana.

Thank you Tijuano, another great post, I'd like to hear your opinion about what's going on up there, I was talking briefly with a friend from Tijuana 2 or 3 months ago, he was telling me about how calmed things were (relatively of course, calmed in Mexican terms, compared to where I am) I'd like to know what's the word in the street.

Like J said, I don´t think this two murders are related, I merged both posts for space reasons.

There´s been about 2 executions per day, even with that number, Tijuana feels calm. Tijuana doesn´t have the problems it had in 2008-2010. If you ask me, I think Tijuana is way more safe than most border cities right now, especially those in Tamaulipas.